Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

Seventy-s event h session

2–27 August 2010

Implementation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination

List of themes to be taken up in connection with the consideration of theseventh periodic report of Slovenia (CERD/C/SVN/7)

The following is a list of themes identified by the Country Rapporteur in connection with the consideration of the seventh periodic reports of Slovenia. The list is meant to guide the dialogue between the State party delegation and the Committee and does not require written replies. This is not an exhaustive list as other issues will be raised in the course of the dialogue.

1.National legal framework, policies and programmes against racial discrimination (arts. 2 and 4)

(a)Information on effective implementation of the provisions in force against racial discrimination, including articles 141 and 300 of the Criminal Code;

(b)Updated information on the parliamentary discussion on the draft Constitutional Law (CERD/C/SVN/7, paras. 87–89);

(c)Measures taken to prohibit public manifestations of hate speech and intolerance by politicians, including information on cases of alleged racially motivated offences and the results of any ensuing administrative or judicial proceedings (CERD/C/62/CO/9, para. 12).

2.Integration of minorities (arts. 5 and 7)

(a)Measures taken or envisaged to protect minorities that are not explicitly defined in the Constitution, and to preserve and promote their ethnic and national identity. The level of representation of minority groups in the Parliament, other than the Italian and Hungarian minorities (CERD/C/SVN/7, paras. 25–39);

(b)Efforts made to ensure cultural rights, including the teaching of their mother tongue, for children from various ethnic groups in Slovenia; availability of school curricula and teaching materials in their languages and reflecting their culture.

3.Discrimination against the Roma community (arts. 2, 4 and 5)

(a)The distinction between “indigenous” and “new” Roma, which may give rise to further discrimination (CERD/C/62/CO/9, para. 10);

(b)Steps taken to prevent and combat discrimination due to stereotypes of and prejudice against minorities including the Roma;

(c)Measures taken to accelerate the achievement of de factoequality for the Roma, in particular access to health services, education and employment and their participation in public life;

(d)Efforts made to prevent discriminatory attitudes towards Roma women and girls, in particular in relation to the low level of their formal education and the high rates of school dropout among them;

(e)Measures to address the poor sanitary and hygiene conditions in Roma settlements, as well as the sporadic attendance of Roma pupils in schools (CERD/C/SVN/7, para. 73).

4.The situation of non-citizens referred to as “the erased” persons (arts. 2, 5, 6 and 7)

(a)Updated information about the measures taken to restore retroactively the permanent residency status of all the citizens of the successor States that formed part of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia who were removed from the Slovenian registry of permanent residents in 1992, referred to as “the erased” persons, and to implement two decisions of the Constitutional Court which had recognized the unlawfulness of the “erasure” (CERD/C/SVN/7, paras. 79–90; CERD/C/62/CO/9, paras. 13–14);

(b)Legislative and other measures in order to grant full reparation to all individuals affected by the “erasure” (CERD/C/62/CO/9, para. 14);

(c)Measures taken to ensure the right to work and social security, health care and education of “the erased” persons.